As we were driving one day we came to a town called Lothian. Guess what the next town was......Middle Lothian. Does that sound like a Texas town?
It is very common in England for there to be a town name, such as Hamdon, then other towns near it named East Hamdon, West Hamdon, North Hamdon, and Middle Hamdon. That makes for some confusion for visitors!
Some of the other interesting town names that we have seen lately are------
Queen Camel (I wonder if there is a King Camel.....), Henlade, Cricket St. Thomas, and Ugborough.
Lots of the towns have the word "stoke" in them, such as Stoke SubHamdon or Bassingstoke, etc. The word "stoke" means place or farm or field. In old times the word stoke was commonly used, and then when a community developed, the people added more of a description to the word "stoke", which then became the name of the town. Sometimes the name of a river or stream was added to "stoke".
I guess if someone were driving through Texas, especially for the first time, he would see many interesting town names, too!
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For sure... Texas has some great town names such as Muleshoe. Lot's of towns were named after women - Louise, Edna, Inez, Sarita, Donna, Maybelle, Thalia. What about Pandora, TX - might should could the lid on that town. Wonder if Marfa is actually supposed to be Martha? Maud, Winona, Annona, Lydia, Celest, and Idalou was named after two girls. Oh, so was Mineola and Dedemonia.
Of course there are cool Texas town names like Gun Barrel City, Point Blank, and Cut and Shoot.
I think the English would find our town names quite fun also!
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